Kurdish Life articles from March 2007

Kurdish Life archives from March 2007

The bitter shocks they enter.(IRAQ)(reporting of Iraq War casualties)
March 22, 2007... "It is time for US officials, including Republican candidates hoping to become the next president, to address the reality that Washington no longer can escape the consequences of its actions. The United States routinely invades, bombs,...

State of mind.(KURDISTAN)(tension between Kurds and other ethnic and religious groups in Iraq)
March 22, 2007... "Iraq's Kurds disliked the Study Group's suggestion that Iraq's central government should tighten its control over Iraq's provinces. They hated a recommendation that a promised referendum on Iraq's disputed oil-rich province, Kirkuk, be...

Reaping what Turgut Ozal sowed.(TURKEY)(Turkish Prime Minister Turgut Ozal's deal with the United States and Kurdish leaders Masoud Barzani and Jalal Talabani regarding the United States government's presence in Iraq)
March 22, 2007... Back in 1990 Turkey's then Prime Minister Turgut Ozal made a deal with the U.S. and Kurdish leaders Masoud Barzani and Jalal Talabani. Masterminded by an Israel obsessed with breaking up the "Sea of Arabs" in the Middle East, the plan has...

Framing Iran.(ISRAEL & THE U.S.)(efforts by Israel and the United States to wage war against Iran)
March 22, 2007... "Let there be no doubt: If there is an American war with Iran, it is a war that was made in Israel and nowhere else. " Scott Ritter, Target Iran, 2006 Back in January, musing on what he assumed to be Israel's preparation for war,...

The importance of being neutral.(relationship of Iraqi Kurds with the United States and Israel)
March 22, 2007... It takes no Delphic Oracle to divine that Kurds in Turkey are not neutral. Nor are Kurds in Syria. Nor are Kurds in Iran. But for the Iraqi Kurds, the trick is how to appear neutral while obviously siding with the U.S. and Israel, a task more...